Culture
This week in history: Spanish poet-playwright Federico García Lorca murdered
August 15, 2016In the beginning weeks of the Spanish Civil War, Federico García Lorca, one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, was murdered by fascist soldiers.
Read moreFlorence Foster Jenkins of the trachea: Go with the Flo
August 12, 2016Meryl Streep fully incarnates Jenkins, endowing the fleshy, flashy, flawed dowager with her full humanity.
Read more“Kindred”: Octavia Butler’s dark fantasy gets the graphic novel treatment
August 11, 2016The new illustrated adaptation of Butler's 1980s classic makes you feel what slavery was like.
Read more“Blueprint for Paradise”: A polished drama about Nazis for our time
August 9, 2016The ruins of the Murphy Ranch, an abandoned pre-WWII Nazi compound in Pacific Palisades, have inspired a new play.
Read more“The Suitcase”: Europe’s and America’s Holocausts seen from the Shawng Zeleezay
August 5, 2016The ambitious Echo Theater Company is now staging the United States premiere of a surrealistic Polish play about the Holocaust.
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